A Celebration of Mundanity

Today had its excitement, full of friends and food, its ups and its down. The baby shower that was scheduled for yesterday, but postponed to today due to the snow, went well even though a number of…

Happy 34th birthday to my oldest brother Dave!

Materials: 2 skeins black Fun Fur, size 8 needles. Project pattern: Cast on 22 stitches, knit every row (garter stitch). Length: 54" (loosely stretched out). Although the Fun Fur was a little tricky…

I love my office, I spend a reasonable amount of time in here. It's a quiet and comfortable room, surrounded by books. I can curl up in my big cozy chair and read or knit. I sit at the table we built…

I spent today at my parents house, helping my mom, offering my services to organize and declutter (my forte) the basement. We made a significant dent in throwing away things of little value, four…

I have three brothers. I grew up with sports all around me, every Sunday it was either football or auto racing that was on the television, the white noise of the crowds or the cars putting my father…

After a few tries, Mark had a successful hunt. Because of this, our basement freezer is now full of venison of all sorts of cuts, roasts, steaks and ground. At first, being relatively new to this…

Today's high reached 70 in Pittsburgh. It was gorgeous, it smelled like spring. Yet, all around me were people bundled up in their winter coats, hats and scarves. Clearly I was not imagining the good…

So, I am approaching another little break in employment, another period of time where I will be laid off due to lack of funding. At a minimum, I'm told it would be three months, but the outlook for…

I finally made it into the all Crepe restaurant, it's only been there for a couple years now, but I finally made it there to dine. It seemed every other attempt to eat there was thwarted, either by…